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Post by XTRProf on Jan 26, 2010 13:03:42 GMT
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Post by clausdk on Jan 26, 2010 13:41:20 GMT
I have been thinking about that type of player for a looong time, for music that is but not knowing what to get and why, I have not yet pulled the trigger.
A month ago I bought a DVBT that does the same (not HD) but it can handle a 160 GB HD and that is a lot of movies in divX, I make copies of my sons DVDs, otherwise they would last a week.
So now I have two USBstick with all his movies on them..
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Post by XTRProf on Jan 27, 2010 15:18:21 GMT
A month ago I bought a DVBT that does the same (not HD) but it can handle a 160 GB HD and that is a lot of movies in divX, I make copies of my sons DVDs, otherwise they would last a week. So now I have two USBstick with all his movies on them.. Yes, now is the time to get one as the competition hot up the price will drop further! Here, is one new player at the just ended CES, that someone sent to me at Youtube, for your viewing pleasure. To be launched around March 2010 as claimed in the video. Sorry, lost the link to the new player at Youtube. Damn it!Presently, other the the AC Ryan, which my fellow hifi and AV fanatic countrymen are going gaga over, there's another one here that they are interested as well. Here:  Of course, we have the more established like Seagate and Western Digital, flying their flages as well in this new phenomenon.  So far, it seemed the AC Ryan is still top of the pile. Btw, curious. How come you didn't buy the HD version? DVBT in HD still can receive SD programme broadcast. This will save you having to upgrade for HD transmission. |
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Post by clausdk on Jan 27, 2010 15:31:12 GMT
It can show HD-tv no problem, but the small incorperated player can not, it plays most video and audio files as long as it is LOSSY  Fot the time being I settle with my PC in the living room, but when it is time for an upgrade I will get one of these smart players instead of a PC, they must also be quiter to use and should also have less electrical noise than a PC. |
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Post by XTRProf on Jan 27, 2010 15:58:19 GMT
It can show HD-tv no problem, but the small incorperated player can not, it plays most video and audio files as long as it is LOSSY Fot the time being I settle with my PC in the living room, but when it is time for an upgrade I will get one of these smart players instead of a PC, they must also be quiter to use and should also have less electrical noise than a PC. Ha, ha, now I see the point. But I'm really surprise that you bought one that has no codecs to play the HD stuffs, whether video or audio. It's relatively cheap nowadays and to have one without those HD codecs, it's like a "sin". I know you have your reasons which I will not tap into.  |
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Post by clausdk on Jan 27, 2010 16:04:10 GMT
Well seeing I do not have any blurayplayer or HDfilms, I do not need it, to play HD, the only HD I got is HDtv (for now). Also it costs money to get the chanels that are HD, which I really hate  |
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Post by XTRProf on Jan 27, 2010 16:23:25 GMT
Also it costs money to get the chanels that are HD, which I really hate Oh, you mean in Denmark, you don't have any free HD broadcast from any national or quasi goverment broadcast stations? Well, I'm luckier than you as I do have a free HD channel (HD5) in the air for the moment. But it will be upgraded to more free HD stations in the near future as the Singapore quasi goverment MediaCorp needs to make sure the one HD broadcast trial to be successful first before pulling the plug. The BBC should be about the same since Singapore was a former British colony. Btw, my local paid cable channels are more meant for dedicated sports, movies, etc which the free HD channel has already covered some of those. |
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Post by clausdk on Jan 27, 2010 21:12:10 GMT
Oh, you mean in Denmark, you don't have any free HD broadcast from any national or quasi goverment broadcast stations? Well, I'm luckier than you as I do have a free HD channel (HD5) in the air for the moment. But it will be upgraded to more free HD stations in the near future as the Singapore quasi goverment MediaCorp needs to make sure the one HD broadcast trial to be successful first before pulling the plug. The BBC should be about the same since Singapore was a former British colony. Btw, my local paid cable channels are more meant for dedicated sports, movies, etc which the free HD channel has already covered some of those. We have the DRHD for free, the national network, that was why I bougth the box at first, to loose my HDvirginity.. I live very close to Germany, so I am hoping that their national channels will offer HD for free and pray to god that I can choose language, so I do not have to hear everybody in the world speak German ;D My cable offers 7 HD channels for about 15 $/monthly, but I am not sure if I want to get, but I would love to see the GIRO, Le TOUR and La Vuelta in HD  |
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Post by FauDrei on Jan 27, 2010 23:44:21 GMT
What? No flac?!? Garbage.  |
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Post by XTRProf on Jan 31, 2010 14:14:13 GMT
What? No flac?!? Garbage. Are you sure? Supported audio formats PCM (wav) Mp3 CBR Mp3 VBR M4A WMA8 WMA9 AAC Ogg FLAC Full specs here. |
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Post by FauDrei on Jan 31, 2010 15:49:44 GMT
You are right. My bad.  In the initial link you've given I went down to Media file formats support and saw: Audio Codecs:
- MP2 / MP3 / OGG Vorbis / WMA Std / PCM / LPCM / MS-ADPCM / LC-AAC / HE-AAC / COOK / RA-Lossless ...no mention of flac there... |
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Post by XTRProf on Feb 1, 2010 14:51:18 GMT
You are right. My bad. In the initial link you've given I went down to Media file formats support and saw: Audio Codecs:
- MP2 / MP3 / OGG Vorbis / WMA Std / PCM / LPCM / MS-ADPCM / LC-AAC / HE-AAC / COOK / RA-Lossless ...no mention of flac there... You are also right! The bloody site writeup is confusing. Imagine they wrote also: Audio Playback features MP3 / OGG / WMA / WAV / AAC / FLAC MP3 ID3 tag display : Title, Artist, Bitrate etc Playlist function Can be used as independent music player for music playback without being connected to TV after the audio codecs. |
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Post by derekrumble on Feb 4, 2010 11:04:57 GMT
A month ago I bought a DVBT that does the same (not HD) but it can handle a 160 GB HD and that is a lot of movies in divX, I make copies of my sons DVDs, otherwise they would last a week. So now I have two USBstick with all his movies on them.. After years of putting it off I have bought a Satellite HDTV recorder. In the UK we have Freesat; an alternative to Sky and terrestrial digital TV - and I didn't want Sky because you have to pay a monthly fee just to be able to use the record facility on their 'Sky Box'. The Humax box I bought is fabulous - records radio, of course, as well as tv. You can archive recordings to anything USB too. It has HDMI for Hidef but \I can't enjoy this facility as I still use a wonderful Panasonic PWD6 series 42" (only 480p but you'd never think so). Both sound and picture quality is excellent on my Humax and digital dubs from radio recordings are great. I'm looking forward to this years Proms Season as many are broadcast on TV. D. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2010 20:41:55 GMT
Check out this WD offering. There is no internal storage, but it also accepts a USB pen etc. The price is under AU$200 locally. I was thinking of buying one, but I found that Toslink OUT downsamples to 48K. The local PC magazines are giving it the highest ranking among the group tested. No support for .flac ? Bloody good show ! Use the better .wav files instead.Windows 7 doesn't support .flac either ! www.bit-tech.net/hardware/storage/2009/12/06/ive-hd-media-player-review/2 |
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Post by FauDrei on Feb 4, 2010 20:53:12 GMT
I've also heard the picture is crisper and the colors are more colorful if you decompress your mpeg2 encoded DVD videos into raw uncompressed format and watch it directly from a disk. Solid state disk dampened with M3 tape, of course...  |
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Post by clausdk on Feb 4, 2010 21:07:10 GMT
Not even with a flac. codec installed ??
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2010 21:32:19 GMT
Not even with a flac. codec installed ?? Claus Not even with the latest .flac front end, and "Permissions"enabled. The Function boxes don't look quite right either, with lettering not 100%. Even with "Permissions"enabled, you click on encode/decode and nothing happens, except a quick flash that makes you wonder if perhaps it did work. Searching with Google suggests that .flac program is not compatible with Windows 7 . I also tried XP compatibility mode. I don't listen to .flac files, but I wanted to use a .flac reconverted file to illustrate that "lossless" file conversion and reconversion with a PC using spinning HDDs degrades SQ compared to the original .wav file. Alex |
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Post by clausdk on Feb 4, 2010 21:48:52 GMT
I have just talked to a buddy og mine and his PC plays Flac files with windows 7, with Foobar also Albumplayer can do it..
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2010 21:52:53 GMT
I have just talked to a buddy og mine and his PC plays Flac files with windows 7, with Foobar also Albumplayer can do it.. Claus I should have made it clearer that I am not talking about playing .flac files. I am talking about installing the.flac front end, and attempting to convert .wav files to .flac, or reconvert existing .flac files to .wav files. Alex |
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Post by clausdk on Feb 4, 2010 22:02:16 GMT
I have just talked to a buddy og mine and his PC plays Flac files with windows 7, with Foobar also Albumplayer can do it.. Claus I should have made it clearer that I am not talking about playing .flac files. I am talking about installing the.flac front end, and attempting to convert .wav files to .flac, or reconvert existing .flac files to .wav files. Alex Maybe I am asking stupid here, but does DBpowerconverter not work on windows 7 ? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2010 22:17:29 GMT
Claus I should have made it clearer that I am not talking about playing .flac files. I am talking about installing the.flac front end, and attempting to convert .wav files to .flac, or reconvert existing .flac files to .wav files. Alex Maybe I am asking stupid here, but does DBpowerconverter not work on windows 7 ? Claus I haven't tried DBpower converter, as I found their ripper inferior to EAC as regards SQ, but great on speed and other features. I am trying to avoid putting too many unnecessary programs on my new W7 installation. I may try ripping with EAC to .flac, but I really wanted to convert much earlier .wav files to .flac and back again. Alex |
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Post by Spirit on Feb 4, 2010 22:49:32 GMT
I use foobar2k for most of my conversion needs... makes a good front-end for flac (even though I use wavpack these days).
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2010 22:54:52 GMT
I use foobar2k for most of my conversion needs... makes a good front-end for flac (even though I use wavpack these days). Phil Can it convert .flac back to .wav again ? Alex |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2010 23:27:42 GMT
Alex
I just converted a flac file to wav in Foobar, no probems with Win 7.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2010 23:37:34 GMT
Alex I just converted a flac file to wav in Foobar, no probems with Win 7. Syd Hi Syd I am trying to cut back on the number of installed programs in this new W7 installation for performance reasons. It would have been much better if I could have got .flac frontend to work. In any case, .flac is a VERY low priority for me. Alex |
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So far, it seemed the AC Ryan is still top of the pile.
